Conquering the Quad!

This weekend, I caught up with Cadence at her ski lessons to find she had 'graduated' to the bigger hill with the 'carrot' rope.

As expected, I was the proud mama at the bottom of the hill continuosly cheering her on.
I was so thrilled to see her master the rope AND make it to the bottom of the hill without 'wiping out'.

I THOUGHT that was the goal of the day. I was wrong. Cadence went up on the rope once again, but ... she never came down.
We waited and waited and wondered ... and then went to 'chill' in the chalet, expecting to see her little group make the trudge back to their wee village. Again, we waited and waited. Much to our surprize, it turns out, our little peanut, our precious wee darling, went up the quad lift to the top of the hill!

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!
We are so excited and proud ....

Not Her Injury

Cadence has a teacher who has been using a crutch all week.
Guess who else has been using a crutch?

She didn't add in the ski boot until about Thursday...

She cracks us up!

The big FIVE!

Cousin Olivia turned 5 this January ... where does the time go?

We all enjoyed a great dinner, the girls had fun running all over the house and playing, the 'boys' watched the big game and of course there was cake!

Bring on the chocolate ...


HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLIVIA!!!!!!!!!!!

The Chester Project

A few weeks ago, Cadence came home with a 'project' of sorts.
Meet Chester:

He came in a bag with three picture books, a scrap book and a pencil case. Cadence's task was to 'read' the three books, take good care of Chester and write about our 'adventures' and/or the stories in the span of a week.
Cadence enjoyed having a new 'stuffy' to drag around and cuddle with (mom was not too thrilled about that part ... he has been around the block after all!).
He helped us out with some chores:

And was treated to a fabulous puppet show starring the bee and the fly:

Chester came to a birthday party, but was sadly forgotten in the bag.
He did get to enjoy an evening out at a 'fancy' restaurant.
Cadence fed him pizza:

And a special dessert with marshmallows.

At the end of the week, Cadence wrote her own 'journal' and drew a picture of us reading the books in bed with Chester.
This teacher gives her an A++! Way to go .....

4 Going on 14!

Last week Cadence was not happy when I told her she had to have a healthy snack after school.
Her response: "I HATE the rules in this house! I just hate them!"

This weekend she was upset with me over some issue I can't even recall, probably because I ended up trying really hard to stifle my laughter! Bottom line, she announced that she "loves me zero!" and she is" never talking to me ever for a whole week even ... HMMMPH!"

Cadence you are a hoot and you have no idea!

One Might Think ...

we were baking something special ...

One would be incorrect!

Absolutley no baking going on here ...

DUH!!!

That's another of the 'phrases', our little Miss Cadence uses!
There's nothing more to say about that.......